behold vs wand

behold

verb
  • To look. 

  • To contemplate (someone or something). 

  • To look at or see (someone or something), especially appreciatively; to descry, to look upon. 

intj
  • look, a call of attention to something 

  • lo! 

wand

verb
  • To scan (e.g. a passenger at an airport) with a metal detector. 

noun
  • A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority. 

  • A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow. 

  • An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand. 

  • A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands. 

  • A stick or rod used by a magician (a magic wand), conjurer or diviner (divining rod). 

How often have the words behold and wand occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )